[Online library] The Why of Things: Causality in Science, Medicine, and Life
• Peter Rabins •
| #2043624 in Books | Columbia University Press | 2013-08-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x6.25 x1.25l,1.20 | File Name: 0231164726 | 304 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Complexity of Causality|By Gerald McLaughlin|Dr. Rabbis surveys the history and current status of causality with attention to the emerging models of complex diseases and the search for more effective prevention and treatment strategies. Blinded randomized clinical trials, the currently accepted standard, are given an interesting summary and historical treatment, as are a model||Peter Rabins shows incredible breadth of knowledge and his thesis―that there are three distinct approaches to causation, appropriate for different types of questions―is compelling. His writing is engaging, and the subject matter is deeply relevant. (Simon
Why was there a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant? Why do some people get cancer and not others? Why is global warming happening? Why does one person get depressed in the face of life's vicissitudes while another finds resilience?
Questions like these―questions of causality―form the basis of modern scientific inquiry, posing profound intellectual and methodological challenges for researchers in the physical, natural, biomedical, and social sciences. In t...
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